iFD-Cockpit – successful warehouse management in the WMS with the help of sophisticated visualisation

The iFD Cockpit is the integrated service tool for visualising your most important warehouse, performance and production data. Statistics relevant to decision-making are summarised according to your requirements and presented in a well-thought-out and clear design.

The simplified presentation of complex relationships makes information easier to grasp and compare. The iFD WMS Cockpit presents production data, key performance indicators and other important information for the seamless monitoring and evaluation of your warehouse processes in real time.

When using the system, the following can be displayed:

• Target value in relation to actual value
• Delivery, lead and buffer times
• Picking performance and picking error rate
• Components (RBG, conveyor technology, PLC) Device status display for monitoring current statuses (availability figures and MTBF)
• Performance statistics per shift
• Order history
• Workload
• Faults or values exceeding/falling below setpoints indicated by audible warning signals or a change in display colour
• Fill level (e.g. display of the number of containers at the NIO station)
• Warehouse utilisation rate
• Utilisation rate of transport vehicles
• Productivity of goods-in and goods-out

This provides your control room staff with all the key information they need to support workflow and organisation in a matter of seconds. The implemented system delivers real-time data at all times to assess performance and potential disruptions in the warehouse, enabling appropriate action to be taken. This tool allows for active management of resources and capacities at all times.

Your benefits:

• The system statuses of conveyor technology and storage and retrieval machines can be integrated into the overview
• A complete and up-to-date overview of all key logistics data at all times (integration of upstream and downstream systems)
• Target values can be monitored more easily, bottlenecks anticipated more quickly and trends better understood
• The displayed key figures can be customised
• Colour coding of values changes according to the current status
• Rapid response options in critical situations (bottlenecks and incidents)
• No need for manual searching, as all relevant analyses are consolidated on a single screen
• Data storage in a data warehouse for in-house analysis and data archiving (data storage spanning decades without slowing down the production system)
• Correlation analyses via data mining in the order data
• Database-independent based on Microsoft System Integration Server

We would be happy to provide you with comprehensive advice on the possible applications.

Our contact person for enquiries regarding the WMS:

Ms Elisa Förster; +49 317/53880 – 226; elisa.foerster@ifd-gmbh.com